Example sentences of "responsibility for a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | When responsibility for a child is divided among a number of people there is always a risk that necessary actions will be overlooked . |
| 2 | Adoption involves the legal transfer of responsibility for a child from its natural parents . |
| 3 | Children need someone unconditionally and permanently committed to them , and it is difficult to see why a parent who takes no responsibility for a child 's care has a right to prevent someone else from doing so . |
| 4 | ‘ a specific issue order ’ means an order giving directions for the purpose of determining a specific question which has arisen , or which may arise , in connection with any aspect of parental responsibility for a child . |
| 5 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 6 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 7 | A carer , I suggest , is someone with responsibility for a child , or an old person , or someone with a handicap , or a chronic illness . |
| 8 | I suggest that you make an ample settlement on the child and write and tell his new stepfather what you have done , and that you have done it because you are determined that no one else should have any financial responsibility for a child of your blood . |
| 9 | They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be . |
| 10 | If parents are not married only the mother has legal responsibility for a child , unless the father has obtained a court order or [ after October 1991 ] the couple have formally agreed that they should both have parental responsibility . |
| 11 | A prohibited steps orderwhich provides that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child , and which is of the kind specified in the order , shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 12 | A specific issue orderwhich gives directions for the purpose of determining a specific question which has arisen , or which may arise , in connection with any aspect of parental responsibility for a child . |